Points of interest

Known as Villa di Bellosguardo since the late fourteenth century, the villa of the Segni family changed ownership in the nineteenth century. The romantic park was created in that period, while the...

The Villa del Trebbio was acquired in the 14th century in the early days of the rise in the Medici's fortunes. It was built on the ruins of a Lombard tower. Restored by Michelozzo, its architecture...

The Villa di Cafaggiolo is an ancient Medici family property acquired in the 14th century. It is located in the Mugello area, on the road to Bologna. It was originally a medieval farm. In 1451 Cosimo...

This is one of the first residences of the Medici family. The villa was bought by the father of Cosimo the Elder who had it enlarged by Michelozzo in 1454. It was the seat of the Platonic Academy, and...

Having bought the villa in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, Baroness Favard commissioned Giuseppe Poggi to carry out the works for the modernization and embellishment of the building and the...

The Villa Il Gioiello or Villa Galileo is the home where the great scientist Galilei spent the last part of his life, confined to house arrest by the condemnation of the Holy Office of 1633. The villa...

The superb residence, one of the symbols of the Renaissance culture, has reached us through many events and today it presents the stratifications, the signs and the memories of its transformations...

The villa had belonged to the Salviati family from the 15th to the 17th century. It is immersed in a 19th century garden. Sculptures and terracotta tondi by Rustici are all over the park. After a long...

The castle has already been mentioned since the fourteenth century with chronicles which attribute the property to the Visdomini family, but only a few ruins had remained before its nineteenth-century...

The Fortress of San Martino stands on a hill that dominates the built-up area of San Piero a Sieve. Works started thanks to Cosimo I dei Medici at the end of the Sixteenth Century under pressure from...